Because of the niche nature of medium format work, transparencies are output on demand, not ganged with other customer’s work. The price of £40 includes up to 10 of your images (all different, all the same or any combination thereof) exposed onto film.

If you are looking for 6x6cm transparencies rather than 6x7cm then simply supply square images – the rest of the frame will be filled with black. But it will still be only 10 frames per roll.

Transparency size explained

The ‘120’ roll film format goes back to 1901, and was introduced by Kodak as an amateur format, specifically for the Brownie No.2. It was eventually adopted widely by professionals when film, camera and lens quality improved. The film is nominally 60mm wide (but actually closer to 61mm!) and the number on frames on the film depended on the camera or film back used and ranges from 3 to 15 per roll. The format we use is known as ‘6x7cm’ and gives 10 frames per roll. The actual imaged area is approximately 66.5mm x 53mm and will show your entire image if supplied at 8192x6702px.

Additional information

Weight

5 g

Cropping options

35mm slides have an image dimension ratio of 3:2. Many compact digital cameras have a squarer ratio than this, or you may have deliberately cropped your image to something of your chosing. By default we don’t crop your image to fit the 35mm frame – any excess left and right (for a squarish image) or top and bottom (for a thin landscape image) is automatically filled in with black. When projected you don’t see the black bars of course – black is the absence of light – and all you see is your image the way you created it.

However, if you don’t want this then when you order your slides you have a choice of ‘Crop to fill frame’. We will then crop the image (which we will do by eye to avoid inappropriate cropping of your image) so that the full slide area is utilised. Note that images are never stretched or distorted to make them fit, just cropped.

Compact camera image

Resulting slide, by default, without cropping

Result using ‘crop to fit’ option.

Cropping in Photoshop

If you would rather ‘crop to fit’ yourself, then accurate cropping in Photoshop is easy and you can greatly speed up working with a lot of files by making use of presets.

Select the Crop tool

In the drop-down dialogue box choose 2:3. By default the cropping box is portrait.

If your image is landscape then click the ‘reverse’ button and the box rotates

Now click and hold on a corner and you can drag the cropping rectangle around, locked in 2:3 proportions at all times. When you are happy hit the return/enter key and your work is done. ‘Save as’ the file to a new name so that your new cropped version doesn’t overwrite the original.

You can save this crop setting so that you can return to it at any time – just name it something useful. You will see we have a couple of presets set up for 35mm slides and View-Master reels.

Sorry, free packs only sent to UK and EU addresses due to high international shipping costs.

Scanning old slides to CD

Sorry, we ONLY go from digital to film, not the other way around. So if you are wanting your slide collection scanned onto CD or DVD to view on your TV or computer then we can't help you. These guys can though: www.slidesoncd.co.uk